Roots of the Mountain Range

"Not Mountain Peak?"

"What weird stuff are you talking about, kid?"

Green Fir was cleaning the ground when she heard Linsey's reminder.

She found this claim somewhat absurd, but out of scholarly caution and seriousness, she still extended her perception downwards.

"This... isn't it just an ordinary Mountain Peak?"

Green Fir didn't notice the slightest abnormality.

In her eyes, the Mountain Peak beneath her feet, like the surrounding land, have been sitting steadily on the land base for thousands of years.

No matter how carefully she tried to find out.

Aside from the direction of the Forest Veins, no other discoveries were made.

Green Fir then turned her questioning gaze to Linsey:

"Is there something wrong with your so-called ' Game Player ' skills? I don't sense anything amiss."

Linsey immediately offered an explanation:

"Green Fir, I can explore the terrain within a certain range."

"The Mountain Peak below isn't solid; it's filled with... wood-like things?"

Linsey answered.

At the same time, they continued to manipulate the [Map] skill.

At this moment, he and Green Fir were located on the edge of this Mountain Peak.

However, as the map's coverage area expanded, the reconnaissance range extended beyond the Mountain Peak, and the objects filling the mountains disappeared.

But this situation has led to an even bigger problem! Even if the reconnaissance range extends beyond the mountains, the green covering the map has not disappeared.

Instead, it continued to extend into the distance, with a faint arc appearing in the distance.

Even after Linsey expanded the map to the maximum acceptable extent, all that could be seen was a seemingly endless expanse of green.

"..."

Faced with this reality.

Linsey was momentarily at a loss.

But soon, an exaggerated hypothesis emerged in his mind.

The [Map] skill will only display two things: the first is the terrain itself that has been scouted, and the second is the markers for various targets.

The former does not currently correspond to the actual situation discovered during the exploration.

Then it can only be the second one.

"Plop—"

Linsey swallowed hard, her left eyelid twitched, and her expression became tense.

Green indicates that this massive creature is a friendly unit.

But in terms of coverage area...

"How big must this thing be?"

Linsey recalled her previous experience.

If we're talking about underground mycelium, it's a colossal entity that covers an area of several kilometers.

Compared to the target Linsey has identified at this moment.

The difference between the two sides is like that between an ant and an elephant!

In this world where the power of Essence exists, a being with such a massive body is probably beyond the description of even the Seventh Stage of power.

"..."

"The wood underground, what's so surprising about that?"

As Linsey was filled with surprise, Green Fir, who was standing next to her, also took action.

She unleashed her skills, and powerful energy seeped into the surrounding ground like spring rain, causing the soil beneath their feet to churn.

The cold, inorganic matter seemed to have come to life.

The soil shifted and moved, creating a huge gap in front of Linsey and Green Fir. It even thoughtfully created a downward slope so they could easily walk down to check.

call--

Just then, a night breeze blew through the restless woods.

At the same time, it dispersed the dark clouds, revealing the bright moonlight in the sky, and the silvery light shone on the huge crevice that was more than ten meters deep.

The brownish-yellow wood, buried deep underground, was thus exposed to the two of them.

Linsey and Green Fir both possess botanical knowledge, and they could immediately tell that this was the root of a certain plant.

But compared to normal plants.

The tree roots were so thick and large that even the several-meter-wide fissure in the ground could not fully reveal their shape and direction!

Green Fir didn't even continue down the path she had forged.

She turned around on the spot and looked at Linsey with an incredulous gaze:

"Are the Mountain Peak peaks beneath our feet entirely composed of these tree roots?"

Linsey nodded:

"At least that's the case within my reconnaissance area."

"..."

Green Fir was speechless.

Besides being shocked by the enormous size of the tree root, she was even more surprised by the failure of her own perception.

The Essence type of Green Fir is Life Source Material.

The skills are inherited from the Life School of [Volcano City], following a unified path under the scholar system. When developed to a deeper level, this skill can even encompass all things under the same concept of life.

Based on this capability.

Green Fir's perception of life is incredibly accurate.

But if it weren't for Linsey's reminder today, she wouldn't even have had the chance to realize that such an exaggeratedly huge thing was buried in the Mountain Peak below!

To put it bluntly, it's practically a joke on Green Fir's abilities.

The only possible explanation.

It was the life force represented by these tree roots that far surpassed Green Fir's level, which is why she couldn't detect its presence.

Green Fir sorted out her thoughts and asked herself, "Could Seventh Stage being do something like this?"

"..."

She immediately had the answer.

--impossible.

The only possible level to advance further in strength is the Eighth Stage...

The Life Scholar stood there, his brow furrowed.

Linsey broke the silence at the opportune moment. "Green Fir, what are your thoughts on this?"

Based on her understanding of Awakened Ones and Essence, Green Fir was shocked by what the things before her meant.

But then Linsey asked.

However, driven by her scholarly instincts, she offered a more realistic theoretical analysis:

"The volume of a plant's roots often corresponds to the volume of its surface portion."

"Since its roots can reach the size of mountains, its volume on the ground must also be..."

Green Fir paused for a moment.

She realized that her deductions contradicted the actual results.

"That's impossible!"

"Our exploration of the Courtyard in the Forest was indeed not thorough enough, but it shouldn't have missed such a massive life form!"

People who pioneered the Courtyard in the Forest World.

Three great cities were built using a road that traverses the entire world as its central axis.

At the same time, there are also hundreds of small villages or towns surrounding the three cities, spreading throughout the world.

There will be plenty of exploration and adventure along the way.

Even though it's a preliminary and rough draft, the map of the entire world has been roughly summarized.

In so many explorations and discoveries.

Absolutely no life form can be so enormous!

Surely, things can't be going wrong with exploring the world too?

Various doubts welled up in Green Fir's mind, and she clenched her fists, even considering sending a message to Volcano City.

Just then.

Linsey asked, half reminding and half doubting:

"Do you think it might be related to the Forest Veins?"

"..."

"I'll give it a try."

Green Fir closed her eyes and activated her perception to the maximum.

The result was exactly as Linsey had predicted.

The Mountain Peak's shape follows the direction of the earth's veins, and it also perfectly overlaps with these huge tree roots!